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Community searching for missing senior
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earch parties were combing the Maple Mountain area this week in search of a missing local man. Anthony (Tony) Morley, a senior, was last seen Sunday, leaving police and family asking for the public’s help in locating him. Investigation shows he left Duncan’s Walmart at approximately 4:25 p.m. and parked his vehicle, a 2008 Acura, near the staging area of Maple Mountain, off Osborne Bay Road — where he apparently hikes regularly. “The vehicle was locked and undamaged so it is believed Mr. Morley left there of his own accord and possibly went for a walk,” Cpl. Krista Hobday’s release says. Cowichan Search and Rescue was actively looking for him by foot and air, she notes. Tony Morley: “We are asking the public nearby last seen Sunday check their outbuildings and fence lines in case Mr. Morley sought shelter there,” requests Hobday. Mounties have checked local hospitals for Morley, without luck, she added. Morley is described as a Caucasian, 79-year-old, with grey, balding hair, and a very thin build. He was last seen wearing a white shirt. His family said he is in the early stages of dementia, and has had recent heart surgery, but is otherwise healthy and active. If you have seen him recently, contact the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP at 250-748-5522.
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A Duncan fire department crew trains in high-angle rescue exercises with members of the Cowichan Search and Rescue on Saturday on Government Street hill. They are going through the certification process. The session was unrelated to the disappearance of Tony Morley, or the earlier disappearance of Jakob Taylor (see page 7).
Duncan area’s sewage outfall to be switched from the river to the ocean Within 10 years: Officials pursuing $22-million project to move pipe into Satellite Channel
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he sewage outfall for the greater Duncan area will likely move from the Cowichan River to a spot south of Salt Spring Island within the next 10 years. Shifting the treated-sewage pipe — tentatively to Satellite Channel on a route still to be determined — is a commitment the North Cowichan/Duncan Joint Utilities Board made
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in its 49-year lease with Cowichan Tribes. Estimated at $22 million, the project is expected to shield shellfish and Aboriginal bathing waters near the current outfall, North Cowichan officials say. Pollution impacts from the current outfall — carrying chlorine-treated offal from the Joint Utilities Board’s Tzouhalem Road lagoons — are especially heavy during summer-drought low flows, Mayor Jon Lefebure noted. “We are currently working with the Cowichan Valley Regional District to amend the Central Sector Liquid Waste Management Plan, “North Cowichan municipal engineering manager John MacKay said. “We are also out for proposals to hire an engineering consultant to do detailed oceanographic and routing studies for this amendment.”
MacKay explained the change is expected by June 2015, in time to apply for a federal infrastructure grant to cover two-thirds of the cost. Outfall-project grants could become crucial to curb tax hikes feared by folks complaining of rising levies to cover what Councillor Al Siebring called “fairly major capital projects coming down the pipeline.” “Council should do a true priority-setting exercise to identify low-priority items, which might be subject to spending cuts, or even possible elimination,” Siebring says in a post at cowichannewsleader.com. Lefebure said the current liquid-waste plan calls for moving the river’s outfall within the next 16 years, “six years having passed already.” He downplayed suggestions the project would simply shift contamination. DEALER LOGO AND ADDRESS GO HERE (dotted line does not print)
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“We have very good treatment at the lagoons, with aeration then alum added, which makes it tertiary (three-stage) treatment,” he said. “We’re better than the (senior government) standards required, but when (waste water) goes into the river it adds nutrients, and there’s an unwanted impact on the river — the longterm goal is to get that outfall out of the river. “With a pipeline into Satellite Channel, there’s a huge cleansing action of tides down Sansum Narrows, so it’s a much safer place to discharge.” While Tribes and local conservationists aim to reopen shellfish harvesting in Cowichan Bay by 2020, Lefebure signalled the river’s contamination culprit isn’t the JUB outfall, but Koksilah farm runoff reaching the bay. more on page A7
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